Listening to and writing poems for Year 7 students
Achievement Objective Being Assessed
Learning Outcomes
Listening to Texts
Listen to texts (poetry), identify the purposes, recall and respond to the main ideas.
Using Texts
Using different text forms, recite, read aloud, and present using appropriate delivery
Processes
Exploring language
Identify and discuss language features and their effects in a range of texts.
Thinking Critically
Discuss and interpret texts, considering relevant personal experiences and other points of view.
Supporting Achievement Objective
Learning Outcomes
Close Reading
Discuss language, meaning and ideas in a range of texts, relating their understanding to experiences, purposes, audience and other texts.
Class Assignment ... Find a poem to share with the class
I was able to listen to a range of poetry.
I was able to talk about the author's purpose.
I was able to discuss the main ideas in a poem.
I was able to present my choice of poem using my voice to express the feeling of the poem.
Here is a link to a good poetry website called PoemHunter.com - Tom
f I were a leaf, I'd like to be blown away into the sky, Breathe the air that comes from my home.
If I were a leaf, I'd like to be attached on the cover of the envelope sending to my mum, Then she would see my name at the first sight of the letter.
If I were a leaf, I'd like to be put on the nose of a pure girl. Cause it is just like the oil painting hanging on my wall.
If I were a leaf, I'd like to be picked up by an old man, As his bending over reminds me of my grandpa.
If I were a leaf, I'd like to hide in the pumpkin field, My grandma liked to plant them and gave the huge pumpkins away to her old friends.
If I were a leaf, I'd like to be collected in my favourite book, That time I could bathe in my thought deeply.
If I were a leaf, I had to grow up, Because nature takes its course. So do I.
Make me a leaf, Then blow me home.
A limerick is a silly poem with five lines. They are often funny or nonsensical. Limericks were made famous by Edward Lear, a famous author who wrote the "Book of Nonsense" in the 1800's. This was an entire book of silly limericks. How to write a limerick: The first, second and fifth lines rhyme with each other and have the same number of syllables (typically 8 or 9).
The third and fourth lines rhyme with each other and have the same number of syllables (typically 5 or 6)
Limericks often start with the line "There once was a..." or "There was a..."
BY ANONYMOUS (but it is believed Ogden Nash actually wrote this) I eat my peas with honey;
I've done it all my life.
It makes the peas taste funny,
But it keeps them on the knife.
My sister doesn't eat meat.
She calls herself a vegetarian.
Mum calls her sensitive.
Dad calls her a nutcase.
I don't call her anything unless.
she picks on me
then I call her names I can't mention in a poem.
At dinner
we're all chomping on our steak,
except my sister
who eats a pile of veges
and some stuff called ' vege- sausage '
which is not sausage at all,
only more vegetable.
When we go for a drive in the country
with green meadows full of cows and sheep
my sister points and says
'Look, there's your dinner tonight ! '
When we go to McDonald's
my sister stays in the car
or hands out 'Meat is murder' stickers.
People keep away from my sister
but animal walk right up to her outstretched hand.
Horses, cows, goats, her boyfriend John, sheep -
they all seem unafraid.
I might try to be a vegetarian soon.
Maybe after tonight's dinner,
my favourite,
Roast lamb!
Ballads
The Drover's Dream
There are many Australian animals mentioned in the Drover's Dream ... here is the Brolga that darted out from the tea-tree.
This story, like all good legends, begins with the dream of just one person. This one begins with the passion of Ian Jackson; a Scot by birth, raised in England on a pig and poultry farm where he says he was not interested in the poultry, graduated from Usk Agricultural college where he specialised in pigs. After working in the UK in the pig industry, he set off to see the world. He travelled overland from the UK to New Zealand working on various pig farms, and when he arrived in New Zealand worked on many more. All along he was hatching plans for his own farm and formulating how he would do things when the time was right. When he set his eyes on this piece of stony ground at the foot of the Hunter Hills in South Canterbury he knew he had at long last found the place to make the dream a reality. The fact that there was a house on the property was of no consequence to Ian, he would have lived in a tent if it had been necessary because he knew this place was the place he had waited all his life to find - he was home. A little while later when he met the love of his life Linda, the place became “Havoc.” From his travels and work experience he knew he was going to breed his pigs outside in the open air where they would be free to display their natural behaviour, have plenty to eat and drink, and room to frolic at will. From his life experiences Ian always knew how he did not want to run his farm. The process of how he does run his farm can best be described as continual improvement. This is achieved by trying to out-think the very innovative and sometimes plain old crafty pigs that make up the breeding herd at Havoc. In the beginning in 1991 Ian was considered a bit of an oddity to be farming his pigs outside, but he persisted and now in the South Island of New Zealand it is quite common to farm pigs outdoors. Linda, a human-resources consultant, had spent most of her life in Auckland. She learnt patience when she came to the farm, because pigs do things in their own time. They called the farm "Havoc" because havoc happens occasionally. Like when the piglets get drunk on the ripe cherry plums (despite all efforts to keep them away), or when a sow decides to farrow in an unusual place. Or there was the time when Yuri the boar jumped the gates. Or the time they had to call in a pig hunter to shoot a wild boar that had come on the rampage. Ian and Linda are now known as Lord and Lady Havoc. Ian’s policy has always been minimal intervention, no antibiotics, and no growth promotants - just a good old healthy diet of locally grown grain and a few added ingredients such as garlic and cider vinegar to keep the pigs happy and healthy. Ian mills all his own feed on the farm and takes pride in saying “I would not feed my pigs anything I would not eat myself.” The health of the pig herd is also attributable to the fact that weaning of piglets at “Havoc” is very late by industry standards. It is common practice in the industry to wean as early as 3 weeks, but at “Havoc” weaning takes place sometime between week 6 and 8 depending on the time of year and how Lord Havoc is feeling on any given day. Ian takes his pigs to be turned into pork and bacon in his own specially designed truck, known as the “Havoc Hog Hauler.” This is to avoid the risk of disease from stock trucks on the farm, and minimise the shock of transportation on the pigs.
Hazel listens intensively while Olivis reads her a Scottish story.
Loch Ness Monster spotted! Loch Ness Monster spotted! August is traditionally the silly season for news stories. One such story about the Loch Ness Monster caught my eye. As many people know, the hunt for ‘Nessie’ has been going on for years. There are many photos claiming to show the existence of the beast. Some people spend their lives looking for the elusive monster of the deep. One of them is George Edwards who has been on the look out for Nessie for 26 years. One of his photos, he claims, proves the monster’s existence. It shows an image of a dark hump slinking in and out of the lake’s waters from the deck of his boat, NessieHunter. After he took the photo the monster then quickly vanished back into the deep. Mr Edwards says his photo proves Nessie is not a sturgeon. More importantly he adds it proves once and for all that the elusive leviathan really exists! He even had the photo independently verified by a team of US military monster experts, as well as a Nessie sighting specialist. The first recorded sighting of the Loch Ness Monster was in 565AD. Since then there have been thousands of sightings. Some people think it is some form of ancient reptile. Most regard Nessie as a hoax or fantasy. Certainly, these days computer technology allows this to happen on photos. Yet those that claim to have seen Nessie may in fact have seen a sturgeon. These fish do grow up to 12 feet long. Then again in bad weather what people may have seen could have been a tree, an eel, a log, a submarine or a seal? Some people think there are in fact several monsters in the Scottish Loch. One of the most famous sightings of Nessie showed the monster with a long neck and head rising out of the water. This fake photo first published in 1934 in Britain’s
Daily Mail newspaper turned out to be a toy submarine, bought from Woolworth, with a head and neck made of wood. It was an elaborate hoax by big-game hunter Marmaduke Wetherell in an act of revenge on the newspaper that had ridiculed him over his hapless search for the beast. Meanwhile in 2012, a sonar image of a large mystery object deep below the surface of Loch Ness netted boat skipper Marcus Atkinson ‘the Best Nessie Sighting of The Year Award’ by William Hill the bookmaker. One thing is certain – the search for Nessie goes on. Maybe a visit to Loch Ness is worth thinking about…
Evaluating Stories
1 Was there a hook in the introduction?
Hook 1 ---------------------- 10 2. Was the information written in an interesting way?
Writing Style 1 ----------------------------10 3. Was the information well organised in clear sections?
Organisation 1 -------------------------------- 10 4. Was there an effective conclusion?
Wrap-up 1 -------------------------------------------- 10
Loch Ness Monster
Miss M ; Thanks so much for sharing this delightful story your Grandparents brought back from Scotland for you Tom. My favourite part was when Hamish wakes up and finds himself locked in the cage with smelly turnips called Neeps and the potatoes known as Tatties. Both my Scottish Grandparents always called spuds "Tatties".
The GHB Part 3 Number 2 2006
Article and photographs by Bettina Evans
I am learning to analyse why the author has written this text and how she has supported her key messages.
Success criteria
I will be successful when I have:
identified and discussed the structure and other features of the text
identified the key messages and the evidence the author uses to support these messages
thought about and discussed the author’s purpose(s) in writing the text.
I am familiar with these words and concepts, including “Highland”, “Middle Ages”, “Patriotic”, “fired up”,
“din”, “fulfilled a similar role to that of”, “deter”, “melody”, “hymns”,
“squawky”, “co-ordinated”, “inflated”, “apply steady pressure”,
“Governor-General”, “kilt”, “reeds”, “Assyrian”, “straddling” .
This stone carving, from a throne room in the Assyrian palace in Nimrud (but presently resting in the British Museum) dates to about 800 B.C. The warrior is assisted by a "skin-float," probably a goat-hide. Other features shown in these palace-carvings are highly realistic, so this bag is probably depicted accurately. Note that the bag is equipped with a blow-pipe through which the swimmer can replace air that has leaked. Tie a simple reed-pipe into this device and Presto!, we have a bagpipe. It doesn't seem like it would have taken much of a leap of imagination to put something like that together.
This is a good website about Scotland [[http://www.historic-scotland.gov.uk/index/heritage.htm -SarahMyths, Legends and Fables= Myths, legends and fables are concerned with the retelling of real and imaginary events. They are often referred to as narratives because they tell a story.Narratives set out to entertain, amuse or instruct listeners and readers.All Narratives have anORIENTATIONCOMPLICATIONRESOLUTIONToday we read about the legend of Odysseus ... it was written by a Greek poet Homer who lived about three thousand years ago! Homers famous poem The Odyssey describes the courageous deeds of the hero Odysseus who spent ten years returning to his homeland after fighting in the Trojan Wars.
http://booknotes-unbound.org.nz/reading-doctors-prescription-1/Thanks Tom ....this was an interesting feature to read about .... this is an awesome site to visit!
Poetry
Listening to and writing poems for Year 7 studentsClass Assignment ... Find a poem to share with the class
Here is a link to a good poetry website called PoemHunter.com - Tom
f I were a leaf, I'd like to be blown away into the sky, Breathe the air that comes from my home.If I were a leaf, I'd like to be attached on the cover of the envelope sending to my mum, Then she would see my name at the first sight of the letter.
If I were a leaf, I'd like to be put on the nose of a pure girl. Cause it is just like the oil painting hanging on my wall.
If I were a leaf, I'd like to be picked up by an old man, As his bending over reminds me of my grandpa.
If I were a leaf, I'd like to hide in the pumpkin field, My grandma liked to plant them and gave the huge pumpkins away to her old friends.
If I were a leaf, I'd like to be collected in my favourite book, That time I could bathe in my thought deeply.
If I were a leaf, I had to grow up, Because nature takes its course. So do I.
Make me a leaf, Then blow me home.
Wang Qian=
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LIMERICKS
A limerick is a silly poem with five lines. They are often funny or nonsensical. Limericks were made famous by Edward Lear, a famous author who wrote the "Book of Nonsense" in the 1800's. This was an entire book of silly limericks.How to write a limerick:
The first, second and fifth lines rhyme with each other and have the same number of syllables (typically 8 or 9).
The third and fourth lines rhyme with each other and have the same number of syllables (typically 5 or 6)
Limericks often start with the line "There once was a..." or "There was a..."
Limerick: There was an Old Man with a Beard
by Edward LearThere was an Old Man with a beard,
Who said, "It is just as I feared! --
Two Owls and a Hen,
Four Larks and a Wren,
Have all built their nests in my beard.”
Limericks by Edward Lear:
- There was a Young Lady of Ryde
- There was a Young Lady whose Bonnet
- There was an Old Man in a Boat
- There was an Old Man in a Tree
- There was an Old Man of Kilkenny
- There was an Old Man of Marseilles
- There was an Old Man of Quebec
- There was an Old Man who Supposed
- There was an Old Man with a Beard
- There was an Old Man with a Flute
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Fun with poetry
Poets such as Ogden Nash and Spike Milligan like to have fun with poetry.
http://www.poemhunter.com/ogden-nash/
I Eat My Peas with Honey
BY ANONYMOUS (but it is believed Ogden Nash actually wrote this)
I eat my peas with honey;
I've done it all my life.
It makes the peas taste funny,
But it keeps them on the knife.
The Kitten
(Ogden Nash)The trouble with a kitten is
THAT
Eventually it becomes a
CAT.
http://www.poetryteachers.com/schoolpoems/schoolpoems.html
This is a good website to get poems-Ellen
by Bruce Lansky
Last night I had the sneezes.
I was really very ill.
My mother called the doctor
who prescribed a purple pill.
At eight o'clock I went to bed.
My mom turned out the light.
I used up one whole box of Kleenex
sneezing through the night.
I sneezed my brains out in my bed.
I didn't get much rest.
So that's the reason, teacher,
that I flunked the spelling test.
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Free Verse
Free verse does not have a structured pattern of rhyme and rhythm.
http://www.stevenherrick.com.au/
My Sister, the vegetarian - Steven Herrick
My sister doesn't eat meat.
She calls herself a vegetarian.
Mum calls her sensitive.
Dad calls her a nutcase.
I don't call her anything unless.
she picks on me
then I call her names I can't mention in a poem.
At dinner
we're all chomping on our steak,
except my sister
who eats a pile of veges
and some stuff called ' vege- sausage '
which is not sausage at all,
only more vegetable.
When we go for a drive in the country
with green meadows full of cows and sheep
my sister points and says
'Look, there's your dinner tonight ! '
When we go to McDonald's
my sister stays in the car
or hands out 'Meat is murder' stickers.
People keep away from my sister
but animal walk right up to her outstretched hand.
Horses, cows, goats, her boyfriend John, sheep -
they all seem unafraid.
I might try to be a vegetarian soon.
Maybe after tonight's dinner,
my favourite,
Roast lamb!
Ballads
The Drover's DreamExtra for Experts
Best New Zealand Poetry 2013http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/iiml/bestnzpoems/BNZP13/contents.html
Gathering Information (Reading for meaning)
The Havoc Story
This story, like all good legends, begins with the dream of just one person. This one begins with the passion of Ian Jackson; a Scot by birth, raised in England on a pig and poultry farm where he says he was not interested in the poultry, graduated from Usk Agricultural college where he specialised in pigs. After working in the UK in the pig industry, he set off to see the world. He travelled overland from the UK to New Zealand working on various pig farms, and when he arrived in New Zealand worked on many more. All along he was hatching plans for his own farm and formulating how he would do things when the time was right.When he set his eyes on this piece of stony ground at the foot of the Hunter Hills in South Canterbury he knew he had at long last found the place to make the dream a reality. The fact that there was a house on the property was of no consequence to Ian, he would have lived in a tent if it had been necessary because he knew this place was the place he had waited all his life to find - he was home. A little while later when he met the love of his life Linda, the place became “Havoc.”
From his travels and work experience he knew he was going to breed his pigs outside in the open air where they would be free to display their natural behaviour, have plenty to eat and drink, and room to frolic at will. From his life experiences Ian always knew how he did not want to run his farm. The process of how he does run his farm can best be described as continual improvement. This is achieved by trying to out-think the very innovative and sometimes plain old crafty pigs that make up the breeding herd at Havoc.
In the beginning in 1991 Ian was considered a bit of an oddity to be farming his pigs outside, but he persisted and now in the South Island of New Zealand it is quite common to farm pigs outdoors.
Linda, a human-resources consultant, had spent most of her life in Auckland. She learnt patience when she came to the farm, because pigs do things in their own time.
They called the farm "Havoc" because havoc happens occasionally. Like when the piglets get drunk on the ripe cherry plums (despite all efforts to keep them away), or when a sow decides to farrow in an unusual place. Or there was the time when Yuri the boar jumped the gates. Or the time they had to call in a pig hunter to shoot a wild boar that had come on the rampage. Ian and Linda are now known as Lord and Lady Havoc.
Ian’s policy has always been minimal intervention, no antibiotics, and no growth promotants - just a good old healthy diet of locally grown grain and a few added ingredients such as garlic and cider vinegar to keep the pigs happy and healthy. Ian mills all his own feed on the farm and takes pride in saying “I would not feed my pigs anything I would not eat myself.” The health of the pig herd is also attributable to the fact that weaning of piglets at “Havoc” is very late by industry standards. It is common practice in the industry to wean as early as 3 weeks, but at “Havoc” weaning takes place sometime between week 6 and 8 depending on the time of year and how Lord Havoc is feeling on any given day.
Ian takes his pigs to be turned into pork and bacon in his own specially designed truck, known as the “Havoc Hog Hauler.” This is to avoid the risk of disease from stock trucks on the farm, and minimise the shock of transportation on the pigs.
Rich vocabulary used ..... passion, industry, hatching plans, innovative, rampage, interventrion, promotants, attributable, weaning, minimise
Reading about SCOTLAND
Loch Ness Monster spotted!
Loch Ness Monster spotted!
August is traditionally the silly season for news stories. One such story
about the Loch Ness Monster caught my eye. As many people know, the
hunt for ‘Nessie’ has been going on for years. There are many photos
claiming to show the existence of the beast. Some people spend their lives
looking for the elusive monster of the deep. One of them is George Edwards
who has been on the look out for Nessie for 26 years. One of his photos, he
claims, proves the monster’s existence. It shows an image of a dark hump
slinking in and out of the lake’s waters from the deck of his boat, NessieHunter.
After he took the photo the monster then quickly vanished back
into the deep. Mr Edwards says his photo proves Nessie is not a sturgeon.
More importantly he adds it proves once and for all that the elusive
leviathan really exists! He even had the photo independently verified by a
team of US military monster experts, as well as a Nessie sighting specialist.
The first recorded sighting of the Loch Ness Monster was in 565AD. Since
then there have been thousands of sightings. Some people think it is some
form of ancient reptile. Most regard Nessie as a hoax or fantasy. Certainly,
these days computer technology allows this to happen on photos. Yet those
that claim to have seen Nessie may in fact have seen a sturgeon. These fish
do grow up to 12 feet long. Then again in bad weather what people may
have seen could have been a tree, an eel, a log, a submarine or a seal?
Some people think there are in fact several monsters in the Scottish Loch.
One of the most famous sightings of Nessie showed the monster with a long
neck and head rising out of the water. This fake photo first published in
1934 in Britain’s
Daily Mail newspaper turned out to be a toy submarine,
bought from Woolworth, with a head and neck made of wood. It was an
elaborate hoax by big-game hunter Marmaduke Wetherell in an act of
revenge on the newspaper that had ridiculed him over his hapless search
for the beast. Meanwhile in 2012, a sonar image of a large mystery object
deep below the surface of Loch Ness netted boat skipper Marcus Atkinson
‘the Best Nessie Sighting of The Year Award’ by William Hill the bookmaker.
One thing is certain – the search for Nessie goes on. Maybe a visit to Loch
Ness is worth thinking about…
Evaluating Stories
1 Was there a hook in the introduction?
Hook 1 ---------------------- 10
2. Was the information written in an interesting way?
Writing Style 1 ----------------------------10
3. Was the information well organised in clear sections?
Organisation 1 -------------------------------- 10
4. Was there an effective conclusion?
Wrap-up 1 -------------------------------------------- 10
Loch Ness Monster
Miss M ; Thanks so much for sharing this delightful story your Grandparents brought back from Scotland for you Tom. My favourite part was when Hamish wakes up and finds himself locked in the cage with smelly turnips called Neeps and the potatoes known as Tatties. Both my Scottish Grandparents always called spuds "Tatties".
The GHB Part 3 Number 2 2006
Article and photographs by Bettina Evans
I am learning to analyse why the author has written this text and how she has supported her key messages.
Success criteria
I will be successful when I have:I am familiar with these words and concepts, including “Highland”, “Middle Ages”, “Patriotic”, “fired up”,
“din”, “fulfilled a similar role to that of”, “deter”, “melody”, “hymns”,
“squawky”, “co-ordinated”, “inflated”, “apply steady pressure”,
“Governor-General”, “kilt”, “reeds”, “Assyrian”, “straddling” .
http://ferrebeekeeper.wordpress.com/2014/04/04/the-mysterious-history-of-bagpipes/
http://darythymdivine.forumotion.net/t267-the-mystery-origins-of-the-bagpipe
This is a good website about Scotland
[[http://www.historic-scotland.gov.uk/index/heritage.htm -SarahMyths, Legends and Fables= Myths, legends and fables are concerned with the retelling of real and imaginary events. They are often referred to as narratives because they tell a story.Narratives set out to entertain, amuse or instruct listeners and readers.All Narratives have anORIENTATIONCOMPLICATIONRESOLUTIONToday we read about the legend of Odysseus ... it was written by a Greek poet Homer who lived about three thousand years ago! Homers famous poem The Odyssey describes the courageous deeds of the hero Odysseus who spent ten years returning to his homeland after fighting in the Trojan Wars.
http://www.educationscotland.gov.uk/scotlandsstories/
The White Mouse – Embedded support (MP3 14MB)
New Zealand Disasters
School Journal Stories
http://literacyonline.tki.org.nz/content/download/28413/297689/file/Quake%2C+Rattle+%26+Roll.mp3
What a Disaster (MP3 2MB) Listen to the story
L2 August 2012 - What a Disaster! (PDF 3MB)
Severe Weather – Embedded support (MP3 13MB)
Debating
Week 4 Reading Challenge Topic .... New Zealand Sharks
http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/about-this-site
this is one of the sharks we are stadeing